One year ago, the Iranian regime killed as many as 148 Iranian civilians in Mahshahr, while imposing digital darkness to hide evidence of their savage crackdown on last November’s protests in that city. Both protesters and bystanders were targeted by snipers on rooftops, tracked down and surrounded by armored vehicles, and sprayed with machine-gun fire. ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 18 November, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Human Rights, IRGC, Mahshahr, Massacare, Sanctions
Instead of using its natural resource wealth to improve living conditions for the Iranian people, the Iranian regime prefers to pawn its oil to fund the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and support its terror proxies as they sow chaos and destruction around the Middle East. We will not let that happen. Today, pursuant ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 27 October, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Iran, IRGC, IRGC-QF, Oil, Sanctions
For many years, the Iranian regime and its primary tool of regional destabilization, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), have exploited Iraq to advance their own interests at the expense of the Iraqi people. The IRGC-QF’s activities in Iraq continue to undermine Iraqi security, sovereignty, and prosperity. Today, the United States is taking another ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 23 October, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Iran, Iraq, IRGC, Official, Sanctioned, United States
The Iranian regime uses revenue it receives from the export of metals to provide funding for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, and other malign activities in the Middle East, and beyond. Today, as part of our maximum pressure campaign, the United States designated eight entities connected with Iran’s metal industry ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 26 June, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: China and Hong Kong, Designations, Iran’s Metal Industry, IRGC, IRISL, Sanctions, SDN List, Steel
For years, Iran has claimed its space program is purely peaceful and civilian. The Trump Administration has never believed this fiction. This week’s launch of a military satellite by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, makes clear what we have said all along: Iran’s space program is neither peaceful nor entirely civilian. In February 2020, the head ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 27 April, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, embargo, EU, ICBM, Iran, IRGC, Program, Space, UN
Iran has long used its naval forces to terrorize the international maritime community – this is not a new phenomenon. In 2015, during negotiations of the Iran Deal and after its adoption, the U.S. Navy recorded 22 incidents of unsafe and unprofessional conduct by the IRGC Navy (IRGCN), many that risked collision. An additional 36 ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 23 April, 2020 | Topics: Events, Fact Sheets, Near East & North Africa, U.S. & Iran | Tags: Collision, International Maritime Security Construct, IRGC, Missile, NAVY, USNS, USS
· Iran’s slick foreign influence campaign to obtain sanctions relief is not intended for the relief or health of the Iranian people but to raise funds for its terror operations. · Since 2012, the regime has spent over $16 billion to fund its terror proxies abroad while Iranian healthcare services have remained woefully underfunded. This ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 7 April, 2020 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Policy | Tags: Fact sheet, Humanitarian Assistance, Iran, IRGC, National Development Fund, President Trump, Qods Force, United States
Iran recently observed the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. The lack of enthusiasm among ordinary Iranians is no mystery. The revolution has failed to deliver the just and prosperous society that Ruhollah Khomeini promised the Iranian people in 1979. Today, the revolution belongs primarily to the regime’s hypocritical elite. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Setad hedge fund, worth tens of ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 30 March, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, Immigrant Visas, Near East & North Africa, Science & Tech, Security & Emergency Messages, Study in the U.S., U.S. & Iran | Tags: Brian Hook, IRGC, Students
Iran needs to be essentially blacklisted from participating in the international financial system after the regime’s refusal to implement restrictions against terrorist financing, an international watchdog group said February 21. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had given Iran’s regime a February deadline to enact restrictions against money laundering and terrorist financing. But the ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 26 March, 2020 | Topics: Economic Affairs, Economic Issues, Near East & North Africa, Press Releases, U.S. & Iran | Tags: Black List, FATF, Iran, IRGC, Pompeo, Rouhani, Sanctions, United States
